SCI: ETF Early Operations - PSC

可扩展Terascale Facility （ETF）或TeraGrid涉及9个资源提供商，它们运行高性能计算、信息和可视化设施，通过专用光网络相互连接，并与一组通用软件集成，为用户社区提供一组内聚的资源和服务。2004年10月1日，ETF将结束为期三年的建设工作，以创建这种分布式环境，并将过渡到可操作状态。该提案概述了作为TeraGrid系统的一部分，将在匹兹堡超级计算中心提供的一系列服务。PSC将通过为TeraGrid用户提供和操作一个集成的资源环境来实现前沿的科学探究。它包括由紧密耦合的高性能存储、可视化和网络系统支持的能力计算平台。PSC人员将直接与选定的用户合作，以提高他们在TG系统上的应用程序的性能，强调扩展到大型处理器数量。根据一项单独的提案，PSC将获得、安装、启动、集成、稳定、评估和测试一组具有代表性的初始应用程序，即早期模型（原型）超级计算系统。基于Cray公司目前正在为桑迪亚国家实验室（SNL）建造的“红色风暴”系统，它被设计成一个高度可扩展的能力系统，用于非常苛刻的高端计算科学和工程研究应用。它将与PSC文件和网络系统连接并由其提供服务，并将成为TeraGrid的一个组成部分。该建议包括将重要的新资源纳入PSC和TG环境所需的努力。该系统将足够大，以支持广泛的测试，以建立其在更大范围内的可行性，作为开放的美国研究界的领导级资源。

The Extensible Terascale Facility (ETF), or TeraGrid, involves nine resource providers operating high-performance computing, information, and visualization facilities, interconnected by a dedicated optical network and integrated with a set of common software that presents the user community with a cohesive set of resources and services. On October 1, 2004, the ETF will conclude a three-year construction effort to create this distributed environment and will transition into an operational state. This proposal outlines a set of services to be provided at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center as part of the TeraGrid system. PSC will enable leading-edge scientific inquiry by providing and operating an integrated resources environment to TeraGrid users. It comprises capability-computing platforms supported by tightly coupled, high-performance storage, visualization, and networking systems. PSC personnel will work directly with selected users to improve the performance of their applications on the TG systems, emphasizing scaling to large processor counts. Under a separate proposal, PSC will acquire, install, bring up, integrate, stabilize, assess and test on a representative set of initial applications, an early model (prototype) supercomputing system. Based on the Red Storm system now under construction by Cray, Inc. for the Sandia National Laboratory (SNL), it is designed to be a highly scalable capability system for very demanding, high-end computational scientific and engineering research applications. It will be interfaced to, and served by, the PSC file and network systems and will be a component of the TeraGrid. This proposal includes efforts required to integrate the significant new resource into the PSC and TG environment. The system will be sufficiently large to support a broad range of testing to establish its viability, at a larger scale, as a leadership-class resource for the open U.S. research community.